Ellis (Letterfrack)

James Ellis, a Quaker and successful manufacurer from Leicester in England came to Letterfrack in 1849 with his wife Mary to help improve the lives of the people of the district. He leased about 1800 acres from Robert Graham and built a farm house but due to ill health he sold his lease to John Hall in 1857 and returned to England.

Associated Families

Ellis (Letterfrack)
Hall (Letterfrack)
Graham (Ballynakill)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Letterfrack	Letterfrack	Ballynakill	Clifden	Ballynakill 28	Ballynahinch	Galway	OSI Ref: L711 575 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 37	$Photo of Letterfrack$

Archival sources

Letterfrack Lodge, photo 2002. 117/035; Irish Architectural Archive
Title deeds to the Letterfrack Estate, 1849-1886. B2/06-v/01-08; Tuam Diocesan Archives, Tuam

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clifden Union, 30

Modern printed sources

TULLY CROSS GUILD IRISH COUNTRYWOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, ''Portrait of a Parish, Ballynakill, Connemara''. Tully Cross I.C.A., 1985: 48-52
JOHNSON, Joan. ''James & Mary Ellis: background and Quaker famine relief in Letterfrack''. Dublin: Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, 2000: All